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Author: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

In Search of Bigfoot:
The Use and Obsolescence of Bionics

September 29, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 3 comments


NBC’s resurrection of (The) Bionic Woman has prompted me to think through the contemporary relevance of bionics, and map its reintroduction against the popular imaginary of the mid-1970s.

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Notes from Economy Class

August 9, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 2 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

The airline seat is an often-overlooked signpost of convergence — a site of convergent media, convergent functionalities, convergent spaces, and convergent
subjects.

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8-Bit Porn: Atari After Dark

June 9, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 14 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
While I am not the first enthusiast to sketch out the basic lineup of adult titles designed to play on 2600 consoles, what most of the fan sites do not consider is the role these games may have played in larger industrial and cultural discourses about gaming.

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To Watch a Predator

April 5, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 3 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?

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The Limits of the Cellular Imaginary: iPhone and the Snuff Film

January 26, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 4 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Though Saddam Hussein and Steve Jobs were on public display for quite different purposes, and on quite different stages, they were inevitably bound together by certain cultural logics of new media.

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Intervention and the Kodak Moment

November 3, 2006 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University One comment

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns and the familial gaze in A&E’s Intervention

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"Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
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New in Over*Flow: @kellymcoyne examines cultural anxiety and ambivalence around the "dumb blonde" stereotype in "Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde. Check it out! https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/03/cultural-history-dumb-blonde/

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Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to http://flowjournal.org to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz, @kingisafink, @influencerlabor, and @westemilye!

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New in Over*Flow: @rouselaurenc and @melstanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site http://archiveofourown.org, providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers. https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

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